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Gunshots swing out in Cairo where Security forces move in on capment by Egyptians who have been fighting for a month to reinstate deposed³ President Mohamed Morsi. Here’s latest from M Kennedy in Cairo.

Violence hasn’t gone too so much from Cairo and other parts of Egypt since security forces dispersed⁴ the pro-Morsi’s sit-ins with teargas and bullets. Pro-Morsi protesters are still marching in Cairo and vow⁵ to continue pushing for Morsi’s reinstatement. Mohamed Epp Racine, the minister of interior said the security forces showed restrain during the operation. He said that 43 policemen were killed in an attack on a police station. And Muslim Brotherhood⁶ members are being arrested across the country in large number. For NPR News, I’m Merrit Kennedy in Cairo.

Secretary of State John Kerry is condemning⁷ the Egyptian military’s crack down. 

“The promise of the 2011 revolution has simply never been fully⁸ realized and the final outcome of that revolution is not yet decided⁹. It would be shaped in the hours ahead, in the days ahead. It would be shaped by the decision with all of Egypt’s political leaders make now and in these days ahead.”

Egypt is in under a month-long state of emergency. 

Former Illinois congressman¹⁰ Jesse Jackson Jr. has been sentenced to 30 month plush 3 years supervisor¹¹ release for his use of $750,000 in campaign funds. Here’s his lawyer Reid Weingarten.

“The fall from grace is completely for my client. Jesse Jackson went from an enormously respected charismatic, long-term member of Congress to a convicted felon¹² who is about to be incarcerated¹³. So, it’s a day of deep sadness.”

In another news, military personnel same-sex marriages got an official word today. They will get the same benefits other couples receive. Defence Secretary Chuke Hagel announced that the Pentagon will treat all military marriages equally. NPR’s Tom Gjelten says the move was widely expected after supreme¹⁴ court overturned the Defence of Marriage Act. 

The Defence of Marriage Act forbids the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages. That meant Pentagon couldn’t give full benefits to personnel in same-sex relationship even they were legally married under state laws. With that Act now ruled unconstitutional, the Pentagon can set its own policy, Defence Secretary Chuke Hagel says the Pentagon will make the same benefits available to all military spouses¹⁵ regardless whether they were in same-sex or opposite-sex marriages. It’s not enough for a same-sex couple to be a committed relationship to get spousal benefits, but the director authorizes¹⁶ 10 days leave time, so a couple can travel to a state where they can legally get married. Tom Gjelten, NPR News in Washington.

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There is growing crisis in the education of Native American children. As NPR’s G C reports a new study that shouting the alarm.

Native Americans students are rough and after thoughts in studies about kid’s academic progress, but the educations trust  to  Washington base group has released one of the most comprehensive reports showing that a grim situation for Americans Indians and Alaska Native children. Only 2 in 10 fourth grader reach a great level. In mass about half perform well below basic, and it’s been in this way for years now. while blacks and Latinos subsided¹⁷ the gains, Native student progress have been flagged since 2005. The problem extends to higher education as well, of all native American students enrolled¹⁸ in four-year college in 2004, only 39% completed a Bachelor’s degree, the lowest for any group. The study is calling for a reevaluation of education policy nationwide to address the crisis. X NPR News.

A traveling hospital technician accused of causing an outbreak of hepatitis C in four state has pleaded guilty at federal drug charges in New Hansel. It was charged with drug theft and tempering also accusing of infecting others with hepatitis C by stealing painkiller¹⁹ syringes and replacing them with saline-filled syringes tainted²⁰ with his blood. Under a plea, the 34-year-old avoid criminal charges in connection with patients outside New Hansel, but he remains²¹ x at least two dozen civil lawsuits²² and faces as long as 40 years in prison.

When were you doing in the Blackout of 2003. 50 million people from the Mid-Atlantic to New England to x lost electricity thanks to an overgrown treat that came in contact with power transmission lines near Cleveland, Ohio. That was 10 years today. 

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